Quotes About Awe

I only knew that I had seen perfection face to face, and that the world had become wonderful to my eyes-- too wonderful, perhaps, for in such mad worships there is peril, the peril of losing them, no less than the peril of keeping them...

Sweet weeping baby Jesus he has a six-pack to beat all six-packs!

Wait till you see her. Sort of woman who makes you feel that your hands are the color of a frightful tomato and the size of a billiard table, if you know what I mean.

Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.

Hay una estrella mas abierta que la palabra 'amapola'? Is there a star more wide open than the word 'poppy?

Cuando estuve por primera vez frente al océano quedé sobrecogido. Allí entre dos grandes cerros (el Huilque y el Maule) se desarrollaba la furia del gran mar. No sólo eran las inmensas olas nevadas que se levantaban a muchos metros sobre nuestras cabezas, sino un estruendo de corazón colosal, la palpitación del universo.

a person can't tame God. He's wild as a lion. He'll haunt you.

Nothing may truly be said to be a "miracle" except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle. That each of us is encased in an intricately organized body, and is set upon an earth whirling through space among the stars — is anything more commonplace? or more miraculous? Great

The intimate yet tense interrelationship among these three forces -- humans, earth, and fire -- makes my soul tremble. I don't believe creative impulse can exist without the trembling of the soul.

Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie.

There are no words. There are no words for what I felt when I saw the setting sun rise.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

I studied their relationship with something approaching awe because I could not figure out what made it work. I felt love between these two people but it was a love without flame or passion. There were also no rancors or fevers, no risings or ebbings of the spirit to chart, just a marriage without weather, a stillness, a resignation, just windless days in the Gulf Stream of their quiet aging.

When you think "whirlwind," think "God is coming.

It is in the dark struggles with God that we are surprised by His response to our anger and fear. What we receive from Him during our difficult battle is not what we expect. We assume He wants order, conformity—obedient children. Instead, we find that He wants our passionate involvement and utter awe in the mystery of His glorious character.

But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power?

If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.

as she spoke, she watched the expressions on the faces go from incredulous shock, to hopeful belief, and finally to awestruck acceptance

Early humans," Langdon lectured on-screen, "had a relationship of wonder with their universe, especially with those phenomena they could not rationally understand.

Robert Langdon stood frozen in the doorway of the National Statuary Hall and studied the startling scene before him.

That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.' 

has given me a deep respect for that which transcends human understanding. I've learned never to close my mind to an idea simply because it seems miraculous.

an overwhelming encounter.

What is wrong with the admission that something exists beyond our understanding?